Can Schools Survive? (eBook)

Questions to Ask, Actions to Take

Keen Babbage (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
274 Seiten
R&L Education (Verlag)
978-1-4758-0868-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Can Schools Survive? raises essential questions about the current status of schools and about the future of schools. The book explores vital questions to answer and considers actions to take so schools can begin to thrive. This book will raise the issue of the purpose of a school and the related issue of whether schools are being asked to do tasks which compete with or complicate the fundamental purpose of a school.This book is interactive and encourages the reader to answer challenging questions, analyze trends in education, and envision the most desired future of schools. The text can help educators and other people concerned about education concentrate on what matters most and on what works best.

Autor

Keen Babbage has thirty years of experience as a teacher and as a school administrator. He has written sixteen other books about education.

Inhalt

PrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1 – Real Progress vs. Do No Harm vs. Make Matters WorseChapter 2 – Educators and EducratsChapter 3 – Real Improvement vs. Failed ReformChapter 4 – PD: Professional Development or Pointless DistractionsChapter 5 – Teachers: Listen to Them and Let Them TeachChapter 6 – School Administrators: Aggressively Listen and Then Lead Based on AwarenessChapter 7 – Individualizing Achievement GapsChapter 8 – The Future of School: A Place for Learning or a Multi-Services CenterChapter 9 – Future Fact or Future FictionEpilogue – Survival is Not Good EnoughAbout the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.3.2014
• Zusatzinfo: 4 Illustrations including: - 4 Tables.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lektüren / Interpretationen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• ISBN-10: 1-4758-0868-2 / 1475808682
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4758-0868-1 / 9781475808681